Shah's 12 crore workers versus 5 family men retort to Akhilesh’s BJP chief poll delay jibe
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hurled a “dynastic parties” salvo at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav who asked why the ruling BJP was finding it hard to elect its new president.
“In our party 12 crore workers have to elect a president. On your side five people in one family have to select. Because we have to elicit opinion from crores of workers it takes time," said Shah after Yadav rose to speak on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 being debated in Lok Sabha today.
Shah also told Yadav , "I can declare sitting here today that you will be your party's president for 25 years, no one can replace you."
Yadav quickly deflected the issue and said: "there's one more thing about a certain yatra and whether it was meant to extend the retirement age beyond 75 years".
Yadav's reference was to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to RSS headquarters in Nagpur on March 30 and claims of Shiv Sena UBT leader that Modi had gone there to announce his retirement as per the party's rule to retire leaders at 75 years.
Modi will turn 75 on September 17 this year.
